Fertilisers Irrational Practices

Fertilisers: Irrational Practices H K Lakshman Rao GUNWANT A Patel's article (September 28, 1991) is very informative and interesting. It is disturbing to note that some or the communications on fertiliser product usage are not in the interest of farmers and products containing plant nutrients, not required by the crop, are subjected to pressure selling. This will result in cost of cultivation going up and national wastage of nutrients. It is unfortunate that there are over 23 brands of fertiliser products for meeting the basic requirements of NP and K.